[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20346]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              SCHOOLYARD FIGHT OVER THE LADY NAMED KATRINA

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, a fight broke out in one of the public high 
schools in Houston, Texas, this week between numerous recent evacuees 
from Louisiana and students from the Texas high school. Several were 
arrested. The tension and energy between the ``displaced'' and the 
``hometowners'' should be channeled in a productive way. As a former 
judge in Houston, I believe these culprits should be held accountable 
for their attitudes and their attitudes need to be adjusted.
  At the end of class on Friday, the Louisiana kids should be put back 
on a yellow school bus and sent back to New Orleans to spend the 
weekend cleaning up their hometown from the mess left by Katrina. The 
Texas students should spend the weekend at the Astrodome helping the 
thousands of volunteers in the relief effort. Then when both sides 
arrive back at school on Monday morning, they should have a different 
attitude about cooperation.
  The schoolyard fight is similar to those here in the Capitol who 
gripe, complain, moan and groan and put blame on others for the Katrina 
disaster, but do nothing personally to help. Cease the fighting words 
and rhetoric and get on with the rebuilding, refurbishing, and renewal 
of our Nation.

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